How could we have missed this one?

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>
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Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 1:01 AM
Subject: Re: How could we have missed this one?


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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
> To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 11:49 PM
> Subject: OT: How could we have missed this one?
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>> What?  No one on the list noticed this "special time" we just passed?
>>
>>     http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/02/13/epoch-win/
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> I also wasn't paying attention for 1234554321
>
> I will have pretty closely lived the same span as time_t.
> Born: 0
> Died: 2147483647

doh, forget that, why would you write that instead of:

Born: 0000000000000000000000000000000
Died: 1111111111111111111111111111111

Also a buddy said it best when the time came:
"And there it is, an arbitrary length of time after an arbitrary point in 
time!"

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